447, Lot: 287. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Emesa. Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.65 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 215-217. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Shamash left; crescent beneath eagle’s head. Prieur 1010 (this coin). Toned, light porosity. VF. Extremely rare, only five noted by Prieur, and two in CoinArchives.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Rauch 48 (6 April 1992), lot 766.